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sonicggg··on Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
Isn't it better to prevent than remediate it? It's not rocket science. Mediterranean diet, daily nattokinase, absolutely no alcohol at any time, exercise
sonicggg··on Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
You forgot to mention that statins are an anti-inflammatory as well. This argument itself fails on that
sonicggg··on Helium Browser
It's just a Brave Browser copycat
sonicggg··on Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable
Kangaroo court
sonicggg··on Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Comparing them with the People of Walmart is not setting the bar very high.
sonicggg··on Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Part of research work is removing extraneous variables.
sonicggg··on Vaccine to curb chlamydia epidemic devastating koalas approved
Wait, if it is possible to create a chlamydia vaccine, why aren't we doing that for humans? Instead we have to pop antibiotics like they are harmless.
sonicggg··on Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-prone cities
How exactly is it working? Florida's population keeps growing no matter what. Highest point in the whole state is a tiny hill.
sonicggg··on Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube
Ironic to read about free speech here where a bunch of stuff gets "[flagged]" when it does not agree with the hive mind.
sonicggg··on The Color of the Future: A history of blue
How do you manage to write an entire article on blue without mentioning methylene blue?
sonicggg··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
This is why we can't have nice things. It only takes a dead kid and a lawsuit for them to start over-regulating everything. Parents are trying hard to project the blame into anybody else but themselves.
sonicggg··on The Therac-25 Incident (2021)
Not sure why the article is focusing so much on software development. That was just a piece of the problem. The entire product had design flaws. When the FDA for involved, the company wasn't just told to make software updates.
sonicggg··on 3 TSMC engineers detained in Taiwan for leaking 2nm process trade secrets
Maybe pay your engineering team well and this will happen less often. Based on the reported Taiwanese salaries for TMSC engineers, it's kind of low for the amount of expertise that is required.
sonicggg··on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
It has always been available
sonicggg··on How artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators
If they are fighting back, they are failing miserably, because the AI generators look better than ever. Midjourney, for example, is crazy good.
sonicggg··on Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time
Doubt it will be used anytime soon. It is one of these breakthrough medical news that you hear about it now, and then you end up the next 10 years wondering whatever happened to it.
sonicggg··on Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes
Evolution did a terrible job there. So many diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction nowadays. We have this amazingly complex machinery, and a single point of failure, no redundancy whatsoever.
sonicggg··on Google engineer put on leave by company believes AI is sentient
Google needs to review is interview process. Some retards are making it through, it seems.
sonicggg··on The Novavax Vaccine, Finally
The FDA moved mountains to get these first vaccines rushed out of the door. And while they are better than nothing, it has not met the high expectations that were set. People fully boosted are still developing symptoms, some even developing long covid.

But the worst is that any newer vaccines or even therapies are not getting the same type of priority anymore. There are a lot of really interesting products on the pipeline, moving at a really slow pace, like Novavax.

sonicggg··on A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient
After reading it, my suspicion was confirmed. Yet another mab. Very powerful, but expensive to scale and synthesise. I guess poor people will have to just suck it up and die. We don't have the tech yet to make these cost effective. Big pharma loves this natural barrier of entry though.

Also, don't expect this stuff to be available anytime soon. FDA process is pretty slow, and sometimes political. Maybe if it were effective against Sars-Cov-2, FDA would be willing again to rush it though the door. Still can't wrap my head around how stuff like Molnupiravir made the cut. They just don't have any shame.

sonicggg··on I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
I use a similar system for Slack notifications. Got an unwanted @here call? Mute channel entirely.
sonicggg··on Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
This is incorrect. Mosquitoes do not kill anyone, but rather the pathogens they carry. They are just the vector.

If I have Covid-19, I pass it to you, and you die, does it mean I killed you?

sonicggg··on How we fixed the ozone layer (2021)
What a presumptuous article. What exactly have we "fixed"? We simply stopped destroying it, and nature took care of the rest.

If I stop causing a recurrent issue that is all my own fault anyway, should I go ahead and pat myself on the back?

This is almost akin to a murderer saying that he saved a person by practicing self-control.

sonicggg··on Symbian Source Code
Now that nobody cares about this crap anymore, they release the source code.
sonicggg··on Why aren't fentanyl test strips more widespread? (2021)
Dealers lace it because it can't be easily detected. If they have access to this, then they may lace it with carfentanyl instead, if then you offer carfentanyl test strips, they'll find the next toxic thing to do it. It's just a cat chasing the tail.
sonicggg··on Why aren't fentanyl test strips more widespread? (2021)
Sometimes I think people who are writing these dumb articles are living in a parallel world. Nobody in real life would use these expressions, the word they are looking for is junkie or addict. Are they trying to sound fancy or what?
sonicggg··on Founders Resign at Mycroft.ai
That does not matter though. As long as US avoids to adopt the English rule for attorney's fees, everyone will lose to patent trolls.
sonicggg··on Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg
But what if you're trying to avoid tax?
sonicggg··on Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
I'd assume they have more control though. I noticed whenever I use Google after connecting to NordVPN, it requires a captcha the first time.
sonicggg··on What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
The article does not explain why .su seems to be popular among white supremacy sites.
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